Owen Oyston's son Karl, the chairman, insisted then he will not spend the club's money on excessive players' wages, and the accounts bear that out.
"Financial fair play", a somewhat toe-curling soubriquet, and not one associated with Fifa, was introduced in 2010, requiring top European clubs to staunch their losses from paying excessive players wages.
Caused mostly by excessive spending on players' wages despite the bonanza from TV rights and eyewatering ticket prices, that loss turned into a total £198m profit in 2013-14.
As chief executive of the NNL, he curtailed the excessive trading of players to establish some parity of talent between the clubs.
That was the first season in which clubs had to comply with financial fair play rules, introduced by the league's clubs to reduce excessive spending on players' wages, and limit clubs' losses to £8m.
A tournament played during midseason could lead to crammed league schedules, he said, and clubs could make excessive demands on players with regard to match schedules, training and trips abroad to play marketing-motivated exhibitions.
That substantially reduced Leicester's loss, which was otherwise likely to have resulted in a large fine under the Football League's then new financial fair play rules by which all clubs agreed to cap losses at £8m to try to reduce excessive spending on players' wages.
And last fall — as collective-bargaining talks were getting under way — the N.B.A. began to crack down on players' "excessive complaining," which no one thought was a real problem until Stern made it one, again summoning the useful specter of a work force that must be brought to heel.
These findings are supportive of Han et al. who investigated the genetic polymorphisms of the dopaminergic system in a group of excessive Internet game players [ 78].
The Health Lottery said the ad was not intended to encourage excessive play but to reflect that players who purchased 40 entries per draw qualified for the refund.
